October 20th, 2008 by
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For shame. We know good and well engineers can concoct energy-generating garb that actually looks good enough to wear, but evidently those fashion-minded gurus weren’t hired for this project. Granted, we have all ideas the image you’re quizzically staring at above is NTT’s first go at a pair of power-packing sandals, but there’s clearly a good ways to go before these things are cute / safe enough to wear on the streets. Might we suggest shoving all that hardware inside of something? The “all hanging out” look just isn’t working here.
[Via TokyoMango, image courtesy of AFP / Getty]
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May 17th, 2008 by
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Personally, we’d prefer slipping our feet into the WiFi-detecting Nike Dunks if given a choice, but it’s hard to argue with the smooth factor bundled with the highly customized kicks shown above. Dubbed Illuminated Confusion, the shoes feature a pattern print with “neon green light-up lateral sides that either blink or glow.” The lighting on each shoe gets powered by a single AAA cell, and you’ll even get a free “custom box” with you order. And considering the $400 price tag and two to three week wait time, we wouldn’t expect anything less. Vid after the jump.
Continue reading Custom Illuminated Confusion Nikes light up the streets, your life
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May 6th, 2008 by
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We’ve been hearing about MIT spinoff VectraSense’s Verb for Shoe “smart shoe” since 2004, but the company is finally taking preorders, and if you’ve got an extra $700, you can now blow it on some of the most ridiculous kicks ever designed. Four years and several hundred melodramatic product renders later, the basic idea is the same: an embedded computer automatically adjusts the shoe to your feet, syncs with your PC, and communicates with the shoes of others to exchange contact information. We’re not sure why you’d want to drop seven Bens on this functionality (we’d rather carry a cell phone and laptop and wear non-ridiculous shoes, you know?) but hey, if you’re going to be a fashion disaster, you might as well do it with wireless capabilities.
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